Death's Head wrote:Same here, my 3 wish list items are on sale but the cheapest is about £9. I want to pay less than £5.

Where did this arbitrary £5 limit come from? The sales are what they are with no flash sales, but on the other hand at least we have basic consumer rights now. Is the extra £4 really beyond the pale?

I don't want to spend masses on games and will wait until the games hit the price I want to pay. The three games I want are 9, 10 and 11. I don't want to pay £30 for 3 games that can't be traded once I've completed them.

Winckle wrote:I really don't get the console player fascination with pawning their games after they're done with.

With the extortionate prices for console games these days, its about the only way to not go strawberry floating broke. I just stopped buying console games altogether. Ill only buy them now when theyre 2nd hand and even at that, it takes strawberry floatin ages for their prices to go down to a reasonable level.

But yeah steam sale, ive got my eye on a few things, mostly cheap ass indies. I do miss the flash and dailies tho. Steam sales have been a real non-event ever since they were removed

Theres no excitement with them anymore, no reason to check back every day (unless you want to collect pictures of things), nothing to drive you to click buy as quick as you can cos its a flash sale and you might miss it. They did release stats though to show that theres more money made without the flash deals though so it looks like this way of doing it is here to stay.

Brerlappin wrote: I do miss the flash and dailies tho. Steam sales have been a real non-event ever since they were removed

It did mean better deals, but having to check steam at least 3 times per 24 hours was a bit of a chore. Also I think getting basic consumer rights to refunds etc was a worthy trade-off.

Rax wrote:Theres no excitement with them anymore, no reason to check back every day (unless you want to collect pictures of things), nothing to drive you to click buy as quick as you can cos its a flash sale and you might miss it. They did release stats though to show that theres more money made without the flash deals though so it looks like this way of doing it is here to stay.

Artificial scarcity is never done for your benefit; Valve are not your friends.